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Author:   Lewis D. Hopkins ,  Marisa Zapata
Publisher:   Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Imprint:   Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Dimensions:   Width: 17.70cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 26.50cm
Weight:   1.048kg
ISBN:  

9781558441705

ISBN 10:   1558441700
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   17 July 2007
Recommended Age:   Up to 99 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Engaging the Future: Tools for Effective Planning Practices, Lewis D. Hopkins and Marisa A. Zapata 2. The Use of Forecasts in Creating and Adopting Visions for Regional Growth, Terry Moore 3. Vision, Planning, and Democracy, Jill Grant 4. Promoting the Community Future in the Contest with Present Individualism, Dowell Myers 5. Using a Scenario Approach: From Business to Regional Futures, Erik Smith 6. Using Scenarios to Make Urban Plans, Uri Avin 7. Using Scenarios to Build Planning Capacity, Stacy A. Harwood 8. How We Use Planning: Planning Cultures and Images of Futures, Michael Neuman 9. Forecasting to Learn How the World Can Work, Andrew M. Isserman 10. Deliberating About the Future, Richard E. Klosterman 11. Developing and Using Scenarios, Brian Deal and Varkki George Pallathucheril 12. Engaging the Public through Narrative-Based Scenarios, Richard Cummings 13. Person-Oriented Narratives: Extensions on Scenario Planning for Multicultural and Multivocal Communities, Marisa A. Zapata 14. Using Plans and Plan Making Processes: Deliberation and Representations of Plans, Lewis D. Hopkins 15. Engaging the Future More Effectively: A Model Request for Proposals, Lewis D. Hopkins and Marisa A. Zapata

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Planners and others seeking insight into this conundrum would do well to start with Engaging the Future. As readers of it will attest, the title is chosen carefully. It describes some of the ways the future can be contemplated, talked about, and addressed in a dynamic way and over time. Fundamentally, it's about engaging each other as the most productive path to engaging the future. --Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 48, No. 5, 2008

Planners and others seeking insight into this conundrum would do well to start with Lew Hopkins and Maria Zapata's book. As readers of it will attest, the title is chosen carefully. It describes some of the ways the future can be contemplated, talked about, and addressed in a dynamic way and over time. Fundamentally, it's about engaging each other as the most productive path to engaging the future. -- Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 48, No. 5, 2008

Author Information

Lewis D. Hopkins was head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at UIUC for 13 years, editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Fulbright Senior Scholar in Nepal, and chair of the Planning Accreditation Board. Marisa A. Zapata is in the Ph.D. program in urban and regional planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where she completed her M.U.P. in 2004.

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